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CHEN, Dominique
 
Affiliation
Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, School of Culture, Media and Society
Job title
Professor
Degree
Ph.d. ( 2013.03 University of Tokyo )
Homepage URL
https://ephemere.io
Profile

Born in 1981. French nationality. Doctor of Interdisciplinary Informatics.

While working as a researcher at NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], he built a media art video archive based on an open license (Creative Commons). He also founded Creative Commons Japan (now Commonsphere), an NPO to promote Creative Commons licenses in Japan, and became a board member.
In 2008, he founded Divideal Inc., a company that plans, develops, and operates information services, and has developed numerous web services and smartphone applications, which were selected as Apple Best of AppStore in 2015 and 2016. The company was merged into Smart News, Inc. in January 2018.
Since April 2017, he has been an Associate Professor at the School of Culture, Media, and Society, Waseda University, where he will be a professor from 2022. His research focuses on the relationship between technology, humans, and more-than-human beings from the perspective of digital well-being. He has led the interdisciplinary research group "Ferment Media Research" since 2019.

He was certified as a Super Creator in the Exploratory IT Human Resource Development Program of the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA) in 2008. He received the 2008 Good Design Award for his work promoting Creative Commons in Japan.

In recent years, he has served as the exhibition director of the "traNslatioNs - Understanding Misunderstanding" (2020/2021) at 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT, a jury member of the Good Design Award (2016-), and the creator of the "Nukabot", a fermentation robot that can communicate with humans and microorganisms. He has also created "Last Words / TypeTrace" (under the name of individual inc. with Takumi Endo), an art installation that collects the process of writing an unspecified number of imaginary wills, which has exhibited in Japan and abroad. 

He is the author of "Japanese Modern Literature as Commons" (East Press), "Words to Create the Future: To Connect the Unintelligible" (Shinchosha), "Making and Moving ALife: An Introduction to Artificial Life Model Theory through Implementation" (O'Reilly Japan, July 2018, co-author), "Riddle Floor: The Editing Technique Where Thoughts Ferment" (Shobunsha, July 2017, co-author), "Cyborgs' Religio: Create Minds in the Big Data Society" (NTT Publishing, 2015), "Bringing the Internet to Life: Prochronism in Thought and Practice" (Seidosha, 2013), "A Guidebook for Creating Free Culture: Circulation of Creation through Creative Commons (Filmart-sha, 2012). He has also supervised the translation of Sandor Ellix Katz's "Fermentation as Metaphor" (O'Reilly Japan), Raphael Calvo and Dorian Peters' "Positive Computing" (BNN), and Murray Shanahan's "Singularity: From Artificial Intelligence to Superintelligence" (NTT Publishing).

Research Experience

  • 2022.04
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    Now

    Waseda University   Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences   Professor

  • 2018.09
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    Now

    Public Interest Foundation Well-being for Planet Earth   Director

  • 2012.04
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    Now

    Center for Global Communication, International University of Japan   Fellow

  • 2007.07
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    Now

    NPO Commonsphere   Director

  • 2017.04
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    2022.03

    Waseda University   Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences   Associate Professor

  • 2008.04
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    2018.01

    Dividual inc.   Co-Founder

  • 2003.11
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    2006.03

    NTT InterCommunication Center   Researcher

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Education Background

  • 2006.04
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    2013.03

    University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies   Ph.d. (Emerging design and informatics course)  

  • 2004.04
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    2006.03

    University of Tokyo   Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies   Master course (Emerging design and informatics course)  

  • 1999.09
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    2003.06

    University of California in Los Angeles   School of Arts and Architecture   Department of Media Arts  

Committee Memberships

  • 2015.04
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    Now

    Japan Institute of Design Promotion  Jury

  • 2019.09
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    2021.08

    公益財団法人上廣倫理財団  AIロボット倫理研究会プロジェクト委員

  • 2019.07
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    2021.06

    21_21 DESIGN SIGHT  Exhibition Director

  • 2018.02
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    2018.09

    Ars Electronica  International Advisory Board, Digital Communities category

  • 2016.09
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    2017.05

    経済産業省  「今後の日本」に関する検討委員会

  • 2014.01
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    2014.05

    総務省情報通信政策研究所  「ファブ社会」の展望に関する検討会

  • 2008.01
    　
    　

    一般財団法人デジタルコンテンツ協会  日本コンテンツ産業のグローバル化に資する環境整備に関する調査研究

  • 2007.02
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    2007.09

    Ars Electronica  International Advisory Board, Digital Communities category

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Professional Memberships

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    THE JAPANESE SOCIETY FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Research Areas

  • Theory of art practice / Design / Web informatics and service informatics / Kansei informatics / Human interface and interaction / Cognitive science / Software

Research Interests

  • 芸術

  • 情報学

  • 情報アーキテクチャ

  • 情報デザイン

  • neo-cybernetics

  • Web Informatics

  • artificial life

  • positive computing

  • wellbeing

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Awards

  • Inno Generation Award NTT Data Corporate Special Prize

    2022.11  

    Winner： Ferment Media Research

  • The 3rd Yaesu Book Award

    2020.10  

    Winner： Dominique Chen

  • Japan Media Arts Festival

    2020.09   23rd Art Division Jury Selections   Last Words / TypeTrace

    Winner： dividual inc, Dominique Chen, Takumi Endo

  • Best of AppStore 2016

    2016.12   Apple   Syncle

    Winner： Dividual Inc

  • Best of AppStore 2015

    2015.12   Apple   Picsee

    Winner： Dividual Inc

  • 学際情報学府長賞

    2013.03   東京大学大学院   博士論文：“インターネットにおけるコミュニティの活性化デザインに関する学際的研究”

    Winner： チェン ドミニク

  • エンターテインメント部門審査委員会推薦作品

    2013.02   第16回文化庁メディア芸術祭   Creative Commands Compilation Data

    Winner： 分解系レコーズ, 萩原 俊矢, ドミニク・チェン

  • 特別賞

    2010.01   映像情報メディア学会   「胡蝶の夢」——生態映像メディアを巡る創造性

    Winner： チェン ドミニク

  • Super Creator

    2009.04   Information-Technology Promotion Agency   「ThoughtTrace」：Recording, Analyzing, Expressing the History of Thought Process

    Winner： Chen Dominique

  • アート部門審査委員会推薦作品

    2009.02   平成20年度文化庁メディア芸術祭   “タイプトレース道――舞城王太郎之巻”

    Winner： dividual(遠藤拓己, ドミニク・チェン

  • Good Design Award

    2008.09   JDP   Creative Commons

    Winner： NPO Creative, Commons

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Media Coverage

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Papers

  • Interaction that Fosters Mutual Care of Human and Microbes: Through the Design and Evaluation of the Nukabot

      64 ( 2 ) 301 - 311  2023.02  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

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  • Nukabot: Design of Care for Human-Microbe Relationships

    Dominique Chen, Young ah Seong, Hiraku Ogura, Yuto Mitani, Naoto Sekiya, Kiichi Moriya

    Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems    2021.05  [Refereed]

    Authorship：Lead author

    DOI

    Scopus

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  • Analysis and Design of Social Presence in a Computer-Mediated Communication System

    Hiroki Kojima, Dominique Chen, Mizuki Oka, Takashi Ikegami

    FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY   12  2021.05

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    Social presence, or the subjective experience of being present with another existing person, varies with the interaction medium. In general, social presence research has mainly focused on uni-directional aspects of each exchanged message, not on bidirectional interactions. Our primary purpose is to introduce such bidirectional evaluation by quantifying the degree of social presence with a few statistical measures. To this end, we developed a software called "TypeTrace" that records all keystrokes of online chat interactants and reenacts their typing actions and analyzed the results from different chat conditions, mainly focusing on the characterization of bi-directional interactions. We also compared the chat interaction patterns with the patterns from phone call datasets to investigate the difference of live communication in different media. The hypothesis of the experiment was that either richness or concurrency of communication is important for organizing social presence. Richness is defined by the variety of information at a time in communication and the concurrency is the number of temporal thread being processed at the same time. Our results show that when we merely increase the richness of information by presenting the typing process, the cognition of others' presence does not significantly increase. However, when the information concurrency is augmented by introducing the transmission of realtime text, we found that the transfer entropy between the interactants becomes considerably higher, and the social presence and emotional arousal, intimacy increased. High transfer entropy was also observed in the phone call dataset. This result shows that the mere augmentation of information richness does not necessarily lead to increased social presence, and concurrent communication is another critical factor for fostering vivid conversation in digital environments.

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  • 行政におけるウェルビーイングの設計(No.9)多様な他者の痛みと出会い続けること

    ドミニク チェン

    行政&情報システム   57 ( 1 ) 71 - 74  2021.02

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  • 行政におけるウェルビーイングの設計(No.8)コロナ禍の中での大学

    ドミニク チェン

    行政&情報システム   56 ( 5 ) 71 - 78  2020.10

    CiNii

  • 行政におけるウェルビーイングの設計(No.7)傾聴の方法論をつくる

    ドミニク チェン

    行政&情報システム   56 ( 3 ) 71 - 75  2020.06

    CiNii

  • Towards a greater global understanding of wellbeing: A proposal for a more inclusive measure

    Louise Lambert, Tim Lomas, Margot P van de Weijer, Holli Anne Passmore, Mohsen Joshanloo, Jim Harter, Yoshiki Ishikawa, Alden Lai, Takuya Kitagawa, Dominique Chen, Takafumi Kawakami, Hiroaki Miyata, Ed Diener

    International Journal of Wellbeing   10 ( 2 ) 1 - 18  2020.05

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    Scopus

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  • 行政におけるウェルビーイングの設計(No.6)当事者研究と痛みの分有

    ドミニク チェン

    行政&情報システム   56 ( 1 ) 83 - 87  2020.02

    CiNii

  • 行政におけるウェルビーイングの設計(No.5)社会規模のペインマップを構築するための条件

    ドミニク チェン

    行政&情報システム   55 ( 5 ) 62 - 65  2019.10

    CiNii

  • メタ床: コミュニケーションと思考の発酵モデル

    ドミニク・チェン

    ゲンロン10     138 - 155  2019.09  [Invited]

    Authorship：Lead author

  • NukaBot: Research and Design of a Human-Microbe Interaction Model

    Dominique Chen, Hiraku Ogura, Young Ah Seong

    The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life 2019 NO. 31, 48-49   31   48 - 49  2019.07  [Refereed]

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    We describe the design, implementation and on going evaluation processes of “NukaBot”, a system built to realize Human to Microbe Interaction, aimed to assist production of fermented food. Our system senses, records and analyzes in real time the fermentation process inside a “nukadoko”, a traditional method to produce vegetable pickles in Japan that involves a highly complex network of microbes. The flora of a nukadoko mainly consists of lactic acid bacteria, yeasts and gram-negative bacteria. The novelty of our system lies in providing an intuitive user interface that lets its user chat with a virtual persona attributed to the nukadoko. The NukaBot thus enables non-specialists to discern the complex dynamics of the microbial communities within a nukadoko in daily situations.

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  • Collectiveness and Autonomy: Toward a Inter-Subjective Model of Well-Being

    Chen Dominique

    Servisology   5 ( 4 ) 4 - 8  2019.01  [Invited]

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  • 行政におけるウェルビーイングの設計(No.2): 痛みの可視化

    チェン ドミニク

    行政&情報システム   54 ( 5 ) 72 - 77  2018.10  [Invited]

  • ALife as a Tool for Cooperative Society Between People and Machines

    Mizuki Oka, Dominique Chen, Ryuta Aoki, Takashi Ikegami

    The 2018 Conference on Artificial Life     103 - 104  2018.07  [Refereed]

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    While technology has brought immeasurable benefits to humankind, recent advances in artificial intelligence and autonomous systems have also led to new ethical, legal, and social issues. We now face the problem of creating a cooperative society in which autonomous systems and people can coexist. The concept of artificial life provides unique perspectives, tools, and philosophies for furthering our understanding of complex living, lifelike, or hybrid systems. However, artificial life is still difficult to comprehend for those outside the academic community. We thus created a public co-creation community called ALIFE Lab, which aims to increase awareness of artificial life in collaboration with artificial life researchers and talents from creative fields such as design, art, and fashion. As one of the community activities, we organized a workshop-based program in which participants learned about Artificial Life and used it as a tool to conceive autonomous systems with concrete vocabulary and theory. This paper reports the methodology and outcomes of the workshop.

  • 行政におけるウェルビーイングの設計(No.1)社会の痛覚系を構想する

    チェン ドミニク

    行政&情報システム   54 ( 3 ) 76 - 79  2018.06

    CiNii

  • インターネットにおけるwell-beingの問題と日本社会における対応可能性について

    チェン ドミニク

    VR学会論文誌   23 ( 1 ) 19 - 25  2018.03  [Invited]

  • Everything is a Remix Remastered(2015 HD) : 言語と映像の共進化 (総特集 現代を生きるための映像ガイド51)

    チェン ドミニク

    現代思想   46 ( 4 ) 168 - 172  2018.03

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  • Designing a Communication Space containing Agency using Writing Record Information

    CHEN Dominique, KOJIMA Hiroki, OKA Mizuki, IKEGAMI Takashi

    Proc. of JSAI   2018 ( 0 ) 2D2OS21a04 - 2D2OS21a04  2018

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    Static text communications in online spaces lack the rich embodied information we experience in face-to-face communication. In this research, we aim at charging liveliness into digital text communication by developing TypeTrace, a Web software that can record and play back writing processes and visualize the micro fluctuations of time contained within. We show the design and result of a preliminary experiment we conducted, and discuss further research directions.

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  • On Generative Ethics and Its Application to Advertisement

    チェン ドミニク

    人工知能 : 人工知能学会誌 : journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence   32 ( 4 ) 509 - 516  2017.07  [Invited]

    CiNii

  • スキナー箱の枯山水 : ゲームの超越について(3) (特集 ソーシャルゲームの現在 : 『Pokemon GO』のその先)

    チェン ドミニク

    ユリイカ   49 ( 3 ) 195 - 202  2017.02

    CiNii

  • Blockchainの重重帝網 (特集 ビットコインとブロックチェーンの思想 : 中心なき社会のゆくえ)

    チェン ドミニク

    現代思想   45 ( 3 ) 105 - 111  2017.02

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  • 人間と情報技術の共進化を目指す共創コミュニティALife Lab．の構築

    岡 瑞起, 池上 高志, 青木 竜太, チェン ドミニク

    JSAI大会論文集   2017 ( 0 ) 3L2OS12b2 - 3L2OS12b2  2017

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    本プエロジェクトでは、人の創造的行為を支援するIAAL（ Intelligence Amplifier by Artificial Life）をテーマに、ALifeのパターン生成技術を知性の補完と増幅に活用しアイディア創出や試作を継続的におこなう共創コミュニティを構築する。

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  • Study on information technology to promote Wellbeing

    Ando Hideyuki, Watanabe Junji, Chen Han Long D., Aoyama Kazuma, Sakakura Kyosuke

    Proceedings of the Conference of Transdisciplinary Federation of Science and Technology   2017 ( 0 ) A - 1-3  2017  [Refereed]

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    We started a research project to develop technology guidelines for promoting wellbeing, with focuson value systems seen in collectivist cultures such as Japan (i.e., the values generated from human relationshipsvis-à-vis the group one belongs to or one processes as objective). We will establish and disseminate informationtechnology guidelines with an emphasis on how we can charge such cultural perception of wellbeing into informationtechnology, and how information technology can approach problems in collectivist cultures.

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  • Cybernetic Serendipity再考 (特集 人工知能 : ポスト・シンギュラリティ)

    チェン ドミニク

    現代思想   43 ( 18 ) 72 - 77  2015.12

    CiNii

  • 「学習」に固執する

    チェン ドミニク

    情報科学芸術大学院大学紀要   ( 6 ) 25 - 27  2015.03

  • Writing Style and Revision Process of a Novelist Examined through Real-Time Creative Process Data

    Kudo Akira, Okada Takeshi, Chen Dominick

    Cognitive Studies   22 ( 4 ) 573 - 590  2015

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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the writing style and revision process ofa contemporary fiction writer from a cognitive science perspective. We focus on the work of Mishima Prize winning author, Otaro Maijo. Using Type Trace, a text editor devised by Dividual Inc., as an analysis tool for observing the writing process, we con-sider features that have not been detected by creative experiment, protocol analysis or manuscript research. Based on observations of Maijo's writing process, firstly revisions are categorized as additions, deletions, substitutions, distributions, or consolidations. Secondly, revisions are further classified as "revisions at a generative point", "revisions in a generative sentence", "revisions in a generative paragraph", or "revisions beyond the generative paragraph", according to the remoteness of the revision from the point of composition. The results reveal that revisions such as the substitution of words and adjustments in sentence length were mostly performed together with text generation. All revisions that were made after an interlude took the form of revisions far removed from sentence generation. We find that Maijo's writing style tends to be maintained for several weeks to months and then changes substantially.

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  • ビッグデータ以降における思想の社会実装について (特集 現代思想の論点21)

    チェン ドミニク

    現代思想   41 ( 17 ) 136 - 140  2013.12

    CiNii

  • 基礎情報学の観点からのインターネットのコミュニティ・デザイン論に向けた基礎検討—ネオ・サイバネティクス概念とコミュニティデザイン言語の相互接続

    チェン ドミニク

    東京大学大学院学際情報学府紀要   ( 85 ) 97 - 115  2013.09  [Refereed]

  • 初音ミク現象をインターネットの構造から分析 生きる作品のために (特集 初音ミク : 日本の文化の鏡像か? それとも世界の未来か?) -- (ストラクチャー編)

    チェン ドミニク

    美術手帖   65 ( 985 ) 102 - 109  2013.06

    CiNii

  • コミュニケーションの発生と継承

    チェン ドミニク

    現代思想   ( 2012年11月臨時増刊号 総特集=チューリング )  2012.11

  • Overriding Art through Free Culture

    CHEN Han Long Dominique

    The journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers   66 ( 9 ) 780 - 784  2012.09

    DOI CiNii

  • 心の相互ケアのためのWebコミュニティ「リグレト」の設計と運営

    チェン ドミニク

    情報処理学会論文誌   53 ( 3 ) 1022 - 1029  2012.03  [Refereed]

  • インターネット時間と自然時間の調停 (特集 Googleの思想)

    チェン ドミニク

    現代思想   39 ( 1 ) 86 - 97  2011.01

    CiNii

  • The butterfly dream; creativity around the bionomical visual media

    Han Long Dominique Chen

    Kyokai Joho Imeji Zasshi/Journal of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers   64 ( 1 ) 33 - 35  2010

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  • ピュア(Pure)・プロセス(Process)・ペルソナエ(Personae) (特集 RPGの冒険)

    チェン ドミニク

    ユリイカ   41 ( 4 ) 162 - 167  2009.04

    CiNii

  • 標本と召還--sample and summon (総特集 初音ミク--ネットに舞い降りた天使)

    チェン ドミニク

    ユリイカ   40 ( 15 ) 166 - 170  2008.12

    CiNii

  • バーチャルとリアルの連動を支える基盤技術

    苗村 健, 木田 巧, チェン ドミニク

    日本バーチャルリアリティ学会誌 = Journal of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan   13 ( 1 ) 20 - 24  2008.03

    CiNii

  • Netgerechtigkeit: Rache der Daten (3) Information ecology: media to be alive

    Chen Dominick

    10+1   ( 50 ) 25 - 32  2008

    CiNii

  • Netgerechtigkeit: Rache der Daten (2) Territoriality of expression, its complementarity of life and death

    10+1   ( 49 ) 28 - 34  2007.12

    CiNii

  • HIVE : a Media Art Archive as a Multi-Derivative Creativity Platform

    Chen Dominique, Kageyama Naoki, Naemura Takeshi

    Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan   12 ( 3 ) 365 - 374  2007.09  [Refereed]

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    Recently on the Internet, with such phenomena as Consumer Generated Media and mash-ups, various derivative creation services for a diverse range of modalities have appeared. However, even in the midst of massive growth of contents resulting from these derivative creations, individual service providers have not yet started to collaborate beyond corporate borders in order to attain multi-derivative creations. The authors implemented and evaluated the HIVE model that leads to multi-derivative creation through exploitation of digital rights licensing, from the viewpoint of Media Art Archives.

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  • Netgerechtigkeit: Rache der Daten (1) Prochronist manifestation

    10+1   ( 48 ) 30 - 38  2007.09

    CiNii

  • The evolution and practices of the Creative Commons in relation with Web 2.0 and business models

    IKEGAI Naoto, CHEN Dominique, MATSUMOTO Kou, NOGUCHI Yuko

    Journal of Information Processing and Management   49 ( 10 ) 576 - 585  2007

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    Since the first release of its licenses in 2002, Creative Commons (CC) increasingly expanded its activities, and today there are more than 1.4 billion contents under various CC licenses in over 50 languages worldwide. Over the recent years, methods of exploiting potentials of the licenses and the organizations of related agents have importantly diversified. Today, the initial public image of CC as being modeled "by and for the lawyers" in order to "promote free contents circulation" is dynamically evolving into a more real-world business compatible system. In this paper, we present an overview of the evolution of CC licenses so that to render a possible horizon of the movement, from the point of view of "business model" and "Web 2.0".

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  • 混交都市TOKYO--都市の優生学に抗うために (特集 東京スキャニング)

    チェン ドミニク

    インターコミュニケーション   16 ( 3 ) 64 - 71  2007

    CiNii

  • On prochronism and its urban application

    Chen Dominick

    10+1   ( 47 ) 129 - 135  2007

    CiNii

  • 可塑性・批評性・対称性について--ネットワーク=実世界環境の往復に向けた試論 (特集 Web X--来たるべき世界)

    チェン ドミニク

    インターコミュニケーション   16 ( 1 ) 24 - 37  2007

    CiNii

  • 「社会」のベンディング--可塑性の構築とリアリティの学習を巡って (特集 ベンディング・カルチャー)

    チェン ドミニク

    春秋   ( 485 ) 13 - 16  2007.01

    CiNii

  • The ideals and practices of the Creative Commons: On the right expression culture in Web2.0:On the right expression culture in Web2.0

    Journal of Information Processing and Management   49 ( 7 ) 387 - 391  2006.10  [Invited]

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    The recent proliferation of the so-called Web 2.0 information services can be considered the result of the convergence between the open-source and open-content phenomena. In this paper, we will describe basically how the open-content derived from the open-source movement, and how the Creative Commons is contributing to the spread of this free culture.

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  • ゲームの超越について (特集 任天堂/Nintendo--遊びの哲学)

    チェン ドミニク

    ユリイカ   38 ( 6 ) 159 - 165  2006.06

    CiNii

  • Architecture的/Archive的(4)物理=情報空間の享楽的な統合について

    チェン ドミニク

    10+1   ( 43 ) 55 - 57  2006

    CiNii

  • ICC presents メディア・アート・センター進化試論(3)アート・センターの制度更新--コモンズの設計として

    チェン ドミニク, 住友 文彦

    インターコミュニケーション   15 ( 1 ) 172 - 175  2006

    CiNii

  • This Is Not A Reality--孤人複合体(S.A.C.)という代替現実群 (特集 攻殻機動隊 STAND ALONE COMPLEX) -- (虚実の彼岸)

    チェン ドミニク

    ユリイカ   37 ( 11 ) 75 - 80  2005.10

    CiNii

  • 物質の記述から行為の表現へ : 年次大会報告 第19回講演会報告 桂英史氏

    ドミニク チェン, NTTインターコミュニケーション・センター

    アート・ドキュメンテーション通信 = Newsletter of Japan Art Documentation Society   66 ( 66 ) 16 - 17  2005.07

    CiNii

  • Architecture的/Archive的(1)序説・MMO現実感の誕生

    Chen Dominick

    10+1   ( 40 ) 19 - 21  2005

    CiNii

  • ICC presents 「情報の海」における「海賊」という倫理性--Kingdom of Piracyの活動をめぐって

    Chen Dominick

    インターコミュニケーション   14 ( 3 ) 170 - 176  2005

    CiNii

  • Architecture的/Archive的(2)第2回・MMO現実感の接続面(インターフエース)としての建築物

    チェン ドミニク

    10+1   ( 41 ) 15 - 17  2005

    CiNii

  • ICC presents メディア・アート・センター進化試論(1)ICCに見るメディア・アート・センターの変容

    チェン ドミニク, 畠中 実

    インターコミュニケーション   14 ( 3 ) 187 - 190  2005

    CiNii

  • 動く城の系譜学--心的ネットワークのトポスとして (特集 宮崎駿とスタジオジブリ) -- (『ハウルの動く城』解読)

    チェン ドミニク

    ユリイカ   36 ( 13 ) 84 - 93  2004.12

    CiNii

  • [DA++]:代理表象システムから代替現実群へ--ネットワーク視覚試論 (特集 デジカメ以前/以後 フォトグラフィから「デジグラフィ」へ--デジタルがヴィジュアルを変える!…………絵画⇔写真⇔映像の現在)

    チェン ドミニク

    美術手帖   56 ( 850 ) 100 - 107  2004.06

    CiNii

  • 展覧会 パトリシア・ピッチニーニ"WE ARE FAMILY" 詩は細胞/ピクセルの如く

    チェン ドミニク

    美術手帖   56 ( 845 ) 15 - 30  2004.02

    CiNii

  • 「ノー・ゴースト・ジャスト・ア・シェル」展--憂い顔のメタ少女たち

    チェン ドミニク

    美術手帖   55 ( 833 ) 154 - 159,12〜13  2003.04

    CiNii

  • 横尾忠則「迎術」論--あるいはアーカイブ・ウィーバーとしてのアーティスト像 (横尾忠則という迷宮--「森羅万象」展から)

    チェン ドミニク

    美術手帖   54 ( 825 ) 88 - 91  2002.09

    CiNii

  • 宇川直宏--カオス・メディエーター (特集 VIDEOHEAD?)

    チェン ドミニク

    美術手帖   54 ( 817 ) 41 - 53  2002.03

    CiNii

  • テキスト 局地性から世界言語へ向けて--The Ghost Out Of The Shell (特集 Takashi Murakami 村上隆--召喚するかドアを開けるか回復するか全滅するか)

    チェン ドミニク

    美術手帖   53 ( 812 ) 92 - 97  2001.11

    CiNii

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Works

  • Shuta Hasunuma Philharmonic Orchestra / BLACKOUT “Official Video”

    Shuta Hasunuma  Artistic work 

    2023.03
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    Now

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    Film Direction : Hiroki Kawai
    Camera : Hajime Watanabe
    Writing & Drawing: Dominique Chen
    Art Direction : Ryohei Kaneda

    Lighting : Hitoshi Sato
    Stage Design : HYOTA

    Shuta Hasunuma：Key, Shaker
    Shuta Ishizuka：E.Guitar
    itoken：Drums
    Yoshio Ootani：Saxophone
    Fumiya Otonashi：Sho
    Yu Ojima：Drums
    Toshihiko Kasai：PA, Mixing
    K-Ta：Marimba
    Utena Kobayashi：Steelpan
    Tomohiko Gondo：Euphonium
    Ryosuke Saito：E.Guitar
    Hiroki Chiba：Bass
    Eriko Teshima：Viola
    Natsumi Miyaji：Flute
    Chiaki Miura：Glocken

  • Nukabot（The National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation）

    Ferment Media Research  Other 

    2022.04
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    2023.08

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    In this exhibit, we focus on the microbes around us, in order to jointly consider future lifestyles in which microbes and human beings coexist and prosper.

    A massive amount of invisible microbes exist in our surroundings, including bacteria, fungi, viruses and protozoans. A diverse range of microbes inhabit our homes, our schools, and our own bodies as well, and they create their own unique ecosystems while maintaining a perfect balance.

    Discover essential information about microbes and the importance of microbes to people, and experience how microbes inhabit our living environments via a full-scale living space and living plants. This exhibit presents ideas for enhancing the diversity of microbes, and hints for lifestyles that make coexisting with microbes possible.

    Together, let us consider a vision for an ideal city where human beings coexist with microbes.

  • Nukabot (WDO 2023)

    Ferment Media Research  Other 

    2023.06
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    2023.07

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    The Japan Institute of Design Promotion (JDP) will hold the exhibition "Design Beyond - Design for a New World" from June 16 to July 30 as a pre-event of the WDO World Design Conference Tokyo 2023, which will be held in October this year for the first time in 34 years in Japan under the secretariat of the JDP. Design Beyond - Design for a New World" will be held from June 16 (Friday) to July 30 (Sunday).

    This exhibition will be held in anticipation of the "WDO World Design Conference Tokyo 2023," and is aimed at those who are thinking about the future of society beyond the specialized fields of design, and will focus on the overall theme of the conference, "Design Beyond," and the four themes scheduled for discussion at the conference: "Humanity," "Planet," "Technology," and "Design for a New World. Planet," "Technology," and "Policy.

    At the exhibition, the design departments of the eight Japanese sponsors of the WDO World Design Conference Tokyo 2023, as well as nine speakers from various fields and three related organizations who will be speaking at the conference's international conference, will introduce examples of design initiatives related to their respective themes.

    What kind of future can design bring to our daily lives, industry, and society? The conference will provide an opportunity to explore the role and possibilities of design in opening up a "new world" from a variety of perspectives.

  • LastWords / TypeTrace (Pier-2)

    dividual inc, Takumi Endo, Dominique Chen  Artistic work 

    2022.12
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    2023.05

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    YOLO：you only live once，你只能活一次 !



    在歷經3年疫情，超過1000多個充滿不確定，各種身體限制、空間限制、精神情緒頓挫的日子後，我們將慢慢迎接曙光。



    災難性疫情就像一道生命的坎，各層面的影響皆超出人們預期的想像，然而在疫情壓力下，生活的步調似乎緩慢並安靜了下來，由於生活上的各種規範限制及距離感，反而觸發了人們情緒的經驗，進而更有自覺地去感受那些曾被忙碌生活而忽略的各種美好，它似乎更深刻的提醒人們回視關於自身記憶、肉身體感、時間空間，以至生命消逝與存在的反思，促使我們更加珍視當下和思索生命，追尋未來更美好的生活。



    展覽 <您好，歡迎光臨 Hotel YOLO> 以旅館作為闡述展覽的載體，將空間分成3大區域規劃，接待大廳、小酒館及客房，邀請9位藝術家參展，透過作品分別帶出「相遇、時間與空間、存在與缺席、科技、生命及人生態度」等議題的討論，期待民眾透過遊走觀賞的體驗過程，慢慢看、慢慢想、慢慢認識、慢慢回憶，得以在旅途過程中找到回應自身的感動，喚起在這段或停滯或忙碌生活中，那被遺忘已久的身體感受，以及勇敢做自己的勇氣，YOLO!

  • LastWords / TypeTrace (LIVES)

    dividual inc, Takumi Endo, Dominique Chen  Artistic work 

    2022.03
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    2022.07

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    In the Future, How Shall We Live?

    In futures projected at different time scales: whether 10,000 years hence or one second from now, will we remain who we are? Are we represented by corporeal memories constructed in physical space, or by our digital behaviors captured in the block chain? Are standards of “living” determined through the consciousness of the organism itself, or by the levels indicated in mechanical data. Are that which human beings consider to be social systems, actually just a world inside a petri dish cultivated by another species? This ostensibly boundless and unfettered topic of “the future” is mired in foreshadowing in every direction, dragging or leading us in progression or retreat.

    In the face of an uncertain global future, LIVES - the 5th anniversary exhibition of the Jut Art Museum, attempts to re-contemplate and interrogate the most fundamental yet radical issues of “life,” “survival,” and “living.”



    The theme and structure of the LIVES exhibition originated from a series of regular research meetings held by the museum team from 2019. Crystalized after internal team discussion, the theme for the exhibition LIVES amalgamates multiple interpretations of the plural form of the noun “life” and the verb “to live,” and invites curators Escher Tsai and Amy Cheng to co-curate the exhibition, with Ming-Tsung Lee, Kuang-Chi Hung, and Lu-Lin (Jerry) Cheng to serve as curatorial advisors; all participants in dialogs and discussions that lasted over a year. Our collective origin and path as we look toward the future is explored through interdisciplinary conversations and contemplation in a contemporaneity where technology and culture intersect.

    A total of 12 artists and teams from Germany, Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Taiwan have been invited to participate in the current exhibition. Curators Escher Tsai and Amy Cheng focus on the possibilities of various lifeforms, on the philosophies and ethics of survival, as well as on technological development and modes of living. They explore the social construction and forms of survival from both cultural and biological perspectives, encompassing the relationships between human beings and nature, and between information and consciousness.

    The future may already be upon us. Over the course of the preparatory process for this exhibition, spanning the years from 2019 to 2022, COVID-19 has accelerated various rehearsals and drills for the future, compelling us to gaze intently at the vulnerability and resilience of life. We have long departed from previously established rules of survival and modes of living. Even so, we will make an attempt to invite each one of you currently experiencing the present moment, to cast away established conventions and join us as we embark on this speculative journey regarding the future; on this perpetual inquiry without an answer.

  • Last Words / TypeTrace（END Exhibition）

    dividual inc, Takumi Endo, Dominique Chen  Artistic work 

    2022.05
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    2022.06

  • Nukabot (21_21 DESIGN SIGHT)

    Ferment Media Research  Other 

    2020.10
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    2021.06

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    21_21 DESIGN SIGHT holds the exhibition "traNslatioNs - Understanding Misunderstanding" from October 16, 2020. The exhibition director, Dominique Chen, is informatics researcher and has undertaken many interdisciplinary studies of art, design and expressive media internationally.

    The word "translation" conjures up the idea of conversion between one language and another, with assorted acts of communication involved in those process. Since ancient times past, translation has been part of daily life as people seek contact with other cultures, and try to understand them. A remarkable evolution has recently come about with translation software, now routine in deployed to enable us to connect each other, "whenever and wherever," beyond all linguistic boundaries. Modes of communication have changed so much that what was once in an unknown world is now familiar.

    However, communication using "translation" is not restricted to languages. There are translations where visual or auditory sensations, or bodily expressions, play the role of bridge to transmit and receive communication. The diverse interpretations, conversions and expressions that are generated by all these processes can be said to have much in common with art and design. This exhibition is based on Dominique Chen's idea that "translation is designing communication." We define translation as "the trial processes linking mutually non-comprehending parties from different backgrounds" and use this to explore the possibilities of translation from multiple perspectives.

    The venue includes experiential exhibits employing AI-based automatic translation and video work by creole speakers with multiple native languages. There are also instances finding translations by through the body expression, such as sign languages or gestures and communication between humans and other species, even with microorganisms. All the works enquire into the possibility of translation. We hope that through the notion of translation, this exhibition encourages visitors to realize the joy of finding emotions and cultures in "others," and of discovering a world beyond.

  • LastWords / TypeTrace (Ars Electronica 2020)

    dividual inc, Takumi Endo, Dominique Chen  Artistic work 

    2020.09
    　
    　

  • LastWords / TypeTrace (Aichi Triennale 2019)

    dividual inc, Takumi Endo, Dominique Chen  Artistic work 

    2019.08
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    2019.10

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    Successively displayed on 24 methodically arranged monitors are "10-minute last words" collected via the Internet, while a keyboard on a table in the center of the exhibition automatically inputs the according text without human involvement.
    This work is based on the "TypeTrace" software that dividual.inc has been developing since 2006. The software can be used for recording and reproducing entire text input processes via a keyboard, including the timing of typing or erasing letters. The sizes of letters vary depending on the time intervals between the input of single words.
    Different from the uniformly sized letters one usually encounters in books or on displays, here the writing person's mindset, with aspects of momentum and hesitation, is vividly reflected in the resulting text. Just like authors' handwritten drafts exhibited at museums for example, or correction marks added in the proofreading process provide information in addition to that of the respective text itself, this work makes the viewer aware of the existence of the writing subjects behind the texts.
    The experience of writing one's last words is at once also an opportunity to rearrange one's thoughts toward loved ones, and about one's own past and future. New entries are still frequently uploaded to the special website that was set up in order to collect "10-minute last words" for this exhibition.

  • Nukabot (Broken Nature)

    Dominique Chen, Hiraku Ogura, Kiichi Moriya, Young Ah Seong  Artistic work 

    2019.03
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    2019.09

  • Nukabot (d47)

    Ferment Media Research  Other 

    2019.04
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    2019.07

  • ナシーム・スレイマンプール × ブッシュシアター 『NASSIM』(ナシーム)

    ナシーム・スレイマンプール, ドミニク・チェン  Artistic work 

    2018.11
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    ペルシア語演劇出演。
    11/09(Fri) 19:30 塙 宣之（ナイツ）
    11/10(Sat) 14:00 丸尾丸一郎（劇団鹿殺し）
    11/11(Sun) 14:00 ドミニク・チェン,18:00 森山未來 ※追加公演

  • 「AUDIO ARCHITECTURE：音のアーキテクチャ展」テキスト執筆

    ドミニク・チェン  Artistic work 

    2018.06
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    2018.10

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    企画展「AUDIO ARCHITECTURE：音のアーキテクチャ展」会場配布パンフレットにテキスト執筆

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Research Projects

  • A research survey of more than human culture in East Asia and its connection to design theory

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2021.07
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    2024.03
     

  • Proposal and practical evaluation of communication design that builds a mutually caring relationship with more than human beings

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2021.04
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    2024.03
     

  • Analysis, generation and prediction of social networks using event sequences

    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science  Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research

    Project Year :

    2019.04
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    2022.03
     

    Oka Mizuki

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    It is said that birds are able to form flocks because they act in a 'critical area', where the movements of a single bird are linked in a chain and propagated to the whole group. In this study, we analyzed whether a similar critical phenomenon exists in internet communication systems. The analysis revealed the existence of a critical phenomenon in online communication, which is observed in a critical region with two states of different nature. It was also found that when a group is in a critical state, nodes emerge that behave like 'keystone' species in biological ecosystems. These mechanisms are thought to enhance the metabolism of the group, leading to the sustainability and adaptability of online communication.

  • メタデータベースに基づく参加共成型アート・アーカイヴ理論とインターフェースの研究

    日本学術振興会  科学研究費助成事業

    Project Year :

    2006
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    2008
     

    HLD チェン, チェン HL D

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    今年度は,昨年度中に開発を開始していた「創作のプロセスを追跡するソフトウェア」であるTypeTraceの実践展開と理論構築に務め,論文や論考の執筆および長期間の一般展示やソフトウェアの無償リリースにおけるユーザの動態観察を行った。デジタル・アーカイヴの標榜する地平の先には,創作の結果のみならず,創作のプロセスを記録し,再生可能な形で共有する必要性が生じる,という段階的発展に繋がったと考えている。
    TypeTraceはキーボードを叩いて文章を執筆する過程を,各キー入力の粒度で時間情報と共に記録し,動画のように文章の執筆過程を再生し,他者と共有することのできるソフトウェアである。文字メディアというものは,最もリテラシーの低いモダリティであるが,同時に参加障壁も最も低い形式である。展示やソフトウェア・リリースを通して多くのユーザの執筆プロセスの採取を行ってきたが,今後とも多くのユーザのフィードバックを得ることによって,多様な発展可能性があると考えられる。
    プロクロニズムとは生命システム論とサイバネティクスの分野を切り開いたグレゴリー・ベイトソンが「生命体の発生と成長の歴史を表現する形態」を指した用法であるが,筆者はこの語を情報ネットワーク時代におけるデジタル・コンテンツのアーカイヴの構築と共有を行う上で不可避の,重要な概念として再定義する作業を各種メディアや学会発表で行ってきた。今後とも,文字メディアに限らず,描画や作曲といったクロス・モーダルな表現形式のプロクロニズムを介して,アート・アーカイヴの可能性を追究していきたいと考えている。

  • Development and Dissemination of Information Technology Guidelines for Promoting Japanese-style Wellbeing

    JST RISTEX  Human Information Technology Ecosystem

    Hideyuki Ando

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Teaching Experience

  • Advanced Media Expression D

    Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences  

    2020.04
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    Now
     

  • Mediology

    Waseda University  

    2017.04
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    Now
     

  • Media Art and Digital Expression

    Waseda University  

    2017.04
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    Now
     

  • Fermentation Media Research Seminar

    Waseda University  

    2017.04
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    Now
     

  • Advanced Information Society

    Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences  

    2013.04
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    2018.03
     

  • Design Fiction Workshop

    Waseda University  

    2017.04
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  • Consumer Society and Media 2

    Waseda University  

    2015.04
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    2016.03
     

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Academic Activities

  • Good Design Award Focused Issue Director

    Scientific advice/Review

    公益財団法人日本デザイン振興会  

    2021.04
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    2022.03

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    フォーカスイシュー『「わたしたち」のウェルビーイングをつくるデザイン』を担当し、年度の提言をまとめた。

  • Good Design Award Focused Issue Director

    Scientific advice/Review

    公益財団法人日本デザイン振興会  

    2016.04
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    2017.03

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    フォーカスイシュー「社会基盤の進化」を担当し、年度の提言をまとめた。

  • Good Design Award Focused Issue Director

    Scientific advice/Review

    公益財団法人日本デザイン振興会  

    2015.04
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    2016.03

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    フォーカスイシュー「技術と情報」を担当し、年度の提言をまとめた。

Internal Special Research Projects

  • 共話概念に基づくデジタルウェルビーイングに資するインタフェースの研究開発

    2020  

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    コロナ禍でリモートワークが普及し、オンラインが主流なコミュニケーションの場になる中、デジタル環境を介した社会的存在感（Social Presence）や共在感覚の重要性が高まった。そこでは、主観性を対置するのではなく重ね合わせる共話の構造が注目される。今年度は昨年度に引き続き、TypeTraceを用いた実験に関する論文を精査しながら、その他でも教育や研究の現場において共話の構成要素である「あいづち」を擬似的に共有する実験装置を開発した。また、Ars Electronica 2020 Tokyo Gardenプログラム（2020年9月）にて、あいちトリエンナーレ2019に出展した作品『Last Words / TypeTrace』（dividual inc.）の国際版を展開した。そして、ウェルビーイング概念を個人ではなく間主観的に捉えるための国際的な議論の論文も刊行された。

  • 「糠床ロボット」の研究開発を通した日本的ウェルビーイング因子分析と理論化

    2019  

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    本年度は、本研究で提案しているHuman-Microbe Interactionモデルのさらなる検証を行い、ぬか床ロボット「ヌカボット」の精緻化と機能改善を継続した。2019年3月から9月まではイタリア・ミラノで開催されたMilano Triennale "Broken Nature"展に招待展示を行い、東京の渋谷ヒカリエで4月から6月まで開催された展示「Fermentation Tourism Nippon 発酵から再発見する日本の旅」においては第2世代のバージョンを制作、展示した。また、The 2019 Conference on Artificial Life 2019にヌカボットの設計についてまとめた論文が採択され、口頭発表を行ってきた他、本研究の哲学的な側面についての論考が雑誌『ゲンロン10』（株式会社ゲンロン）に掲載された。

  • 共話概念に基づくデジタルウェルビーイングに資するインタフェースの研究開発

    2019  

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    執筆記録を記録するTypeTraceを用いたオンライン・コミュニケーション・システムを開発し、被験者実験を行い、結果を分析した。東京大学と筑波大学の共同研究者たちと論文を執筆し、現在はNature Scientific Reportsに投稿予定である。同システムは2019年8月から10月に開催された国際芸術祭あいちトリエンナーレ2019に出展した作品『Last Words / TypeTrace』（dividual inc.）でも用いられ、各種メディア、SNSでも多く取り上げられた。また、2020年1月には書籍『未来をつくる言葉―わかりあえなさをつなぐために』（新潮社）を上梓し、その中で本研究の背景や社会的意義について言及している。

  • 「共話」概念に基づいたデジタルコミュニケーションインタフェースの基礎的研究

    2018  

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    本課題で提案する執筆記録システムの新たなリアルタイムチャットのバージョンを開発し、その研究成果を人工知能学会全国大会にて発表した。またその後、追加実験を行い、現在は海外論文誌への投稿を準備している。芸術祭あいちトリエンナーレ2019には本システムを用いたアート作品の出展が発表された。

  • 執筆過程記録再生システムTypeTraceのWeb版開発とユーザーデータ解析

    2017  

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    執筆過程記録再生システムTypeTraceのWeb版を開発し、オンラインでの被験者実験を行い、その分析結果をまとめた論文を2018年度人工知能学会全国大会（第32回）のオーガナイズドセッションオーガナイズドセッション「人工生命の新展開: 進化・創発・ウェブ計算」にて発表予定である。また、本研究について口頭で東京大学大学院情報学環ヒューマンオーグメンテーション学（ソニー寄付講座）2018年シンポジウム（東京大学）、JST RISTEX「人とAIが共進化する社会のデザイン～人文・社会科学の自然科学への関与」シンポジウム（東京大学）、国際シンポジウム「人文知の明日を見つめて —メディアの刷新と知の変貌—」（早稲田大学）で発表を行った。